# 潟

| 潟 | U+6F5F, &#28511; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F5F |
| ← 潞 [U+6F5E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 潠 → [U+6F60] |

## Translingual
### Han character

潟 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水竹難火 (EHXF), four-corner 3712$_7$, composition ⿰氵舄)

#### Derived characters

* 𧂙

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 649, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18247
* Dae Jaweon: page 1059, character 10
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1743, character 9
* Unihan data for U+6F5F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 寫 | *sjaːʔ |
| 瀉 | *sjaːʔ, *sjaːɡs |
| 舄 | *sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ |
| 獡 | *hjaɡ |
| 潟 | *sjaːɡ |
| 磶 | *sjaːɡ |
| 蕮 | *sjaːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sjaːɡ) : semantic 水 + phonetic 舄 (OC *sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xì (xi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sik$^1$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xì
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sì
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^4$
*** Yale: syì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sik$^1$
*** Yale: sīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɪk̚⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ²¹/
* Middle Chinese: sjek
Rime :
| Character | 潟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 昔 (123) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 思積切 |
| Baxter | sjek |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siᴇk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /siɛk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /siæk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /siajk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /siɛk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭɛk̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /si̯ɛk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sik$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-qʰAk/
    (Zhengzhang): /*sjaːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 潟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ sjek › |
| Old Chinese | /*s-qʰAk/ |
| English | salty soil |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 潟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13436 |
| Phonetic component | 舄 |
| Rime group | 鐸 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 昔 |
| Old Chinese | /*sjaːɡ/ |

### Definitions

潟
* saline land; salt marsh

### Compounds

* 新潟 (Xīnxì)
* 潟湖 (xìhú)
* 潟滷 / 潟卤
* 潟鹵 / 潟卤 (xìlǔ)
* 鹹潟 / 咸潟

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “潟”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 254.

## Japanese
### Alternative forms

* (ryakuji) 泻 [U+6CFB]

### Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)
* lagoon

#### Readings

* Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
* Kan-on: せき (seki)
* Kun: かた (kata, 潟, Jōyō)
* Nanori: かた (kata)、がら (gara)

#### Compounds

* 潟(せき)湖(こ) (sekiko)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 潟
* かた Grade: 4
* kun'yomi
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) かた [kàtáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
* IPA: [ka̠ta̠]

### Noun

潟(かた) • (kata)
* lagoon
* tidal flats
* (historical) inlet, bay

#### Synonyms

* (lagoon): ラグーン (ragūn)
* (tidal flat): 干(ひ)潟(がた) (higata)
* (inlet): 入(い)り江(え) (irie)

#### Derived terms

* 明石(アカシ)潟(ガタ) (akashigata)
* 潮(しお)干(ひ)潟(がた) (shiohi-gata, “ebb tide beach”)
* 難波(なにわ)潟(がた) (Naniwa-gata)
* 新(にい)潟(がた) (Nīgata)
* 八(はち)郎(ろう)潟(がた) (Hachirō-gata)

### Proper noun

潟(がた) • (Gata)
* a surname

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

潟 (eumhun 개펄 석 (gaepeol seok))
* tidal flats

#### References

* Naver Hanja Dictionary: 潟

## Vietnamese
### Han character

潟: Hán Nôm readings: tích
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation